The Bhagavad Gita

This Sanskrit dialogue, a section of the Mahabharata composed in the last centuries BCE, is spoken on the battlefield of Kurukshetra as the warrior Arjuna refuses to fight his kinsmen and the god Krishna, serving as his charioteer, answers him. Krishna teaches action without attachment to fruit, knowledge of the self, and devotion, and he reveals a cosmic form that terrifies Arjuna before restoring him to duty. The argument moves through rival paths of discipline. The work is a philosophical and religious poem inside an epic war, not a complete telling of the Pandava story and not a lawbook for daily ritual.

Quarter-bound in mid-blue cloth with Modigliani paper sides printed with dark blue images, a large rectangular gilded picture is blocked onto the front cover. Dark blue endpapers printed with a yellow pattern. Plain blue slipcase.